I just installed XP on an Asus quad with win 7, the hard drive had been partitioned. I'd found Asus has drivers for XP and was thinking of a dual boot. It was like a trip back in time, the load time for XP was very quick, esp when compared to vista and win 7. even without the drivers. Since I didn't have drivers I couldn't connect to the internet, I'd have to download them on the other computer and put them on a disk. I tried to boot into Win 7 again, but it wasn't going to happen. Formatting the drive to remove XP still didn't let me boot into Win 7, I put in the Win 7 recovery disk and it fixed an error in a boot file so I'm back to Win 7. This is one more reason to build rather than buy, although the Gateway has 3 OS on it, all Win 7, but they don't have drivers for XP.
Unfortunate, I had a few thing I wanted to try in XP.
Carl2

US scientists have found further evidence that huge seas existed long ago on Mars.

A geological mapping project found sedimentary deposits in a region called Hellas Planitia which suggest a large sea once stood there....

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You can see your own country/town viewing times from here
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

England viewing times here. (select your town/city)
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region=England

the ISS makes 1 orbit every 1.5 hours (or there abouts) but takes about 6 weeks to get back to where it started. The further north you are the harder it is to view.

Higher duration times and higher max elevation make it easier to see. Clear skys and not being asleep are a must

Get a load of this hole

Take me there...

With every attempt so far failing to stop the leak its not looking good is it, this thing has me very worried and concerned, I mean how far is it going to spread, if they cant stop the leak they will have to contain it somehow or I see this disaster having far reaching consequences. It's bad enough for the people and wildlife it's effecting now but if it carries on and on I shudder to think what will happen.

I also cant help but think this could have been avoided, I was watching the news and they had a worker from the rig talking about what happened, he said they started to see pieces of rubber which looked like the oil seal breaking up, he reported it but was told to keep on drilling or what ever it was they were doing but he thought they should have stopped to check it out.

I don't want to play the blame game but what a great shame those signs were ignored.

I'm hoping now for the next attempt to work and plug that hole, right now it seems hope is all we have.

One of the games I used to play on a borrowed A500 was Speedball.
Had great fun playing Datahopa with this game.



The A500 had a dodgy monitor (everything was green) partly the reason I had it. Played this game loads with the dodgy monitor.
Got the monitor fixed and Datahopa could no longer work out what players were his and I could beat him easily. No fun for either of us.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This is a cool pic of the ISS transiting the sun.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100523.html

And the main link is this one